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Related: About this forumTexas School Persecutes Female Assistant Principal Because Her IUD Caused Her To Bleed (x post)
Another Texas school has joined the race to be the most outrageously ignorant education facility in the state after administrators placed a female assistant principal on leave because they dont believe her IUD caused her to bleed during a training session, and it just gets more outrageous from there.
Kourtney Glaser has worked hard to become a respected assistant principal at Comanche Springs Elementary School. Shes also a wife and a new mother. Thats why she uses an IUD, a intrauterine birth control device that prevents pregnancy.
Unfortunately, Glaser experienced a medical emergency during a district training session when she began bleeding heavily after the IUD became lodged in her uterine wall. At the hospital, doctors removed the device and stopped the bleeding.
Glaser expected to return to work and her normal routine, but the district decided to put her on leave instead. Why? Because her bosses dont believe her bleeding was caused by the IUD. They think her lady bleeding was caused by severe anxiety, accused her of being afraid of public speaking, and demanded she show them her private medical records despite the fact that she had already provided district officials the necessary documentation to back up her story.
But the Eagle Mountain-Saginaw Independent School District refuses to believe that the IUD caused the medical emergency. You know, because Texas is full of morons who know nothing about female anatomy and are in denial that women actually use birth control.
Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/02/27/texas-school-persecutes-female-assistant-principal-because-her-iud-caused-her-to-bleed-video/
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Texas School Persecutes Female Assistant Principal Because Her IUD Caused Her To Bleed (x post) (Original Post)
Panich52
Mar 2015
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ladjf
(17,320 posts)1. Texas may be leading the Country in crazy politics. nt
marym625
(17,997 posts)2. Maybe we should make them bleed
procon
(15,805 posts)3. Why does a woman have to provide the most intimate details
of her healthcare to an employer? What right does an employer have to demand that any worker disclose the most personal details of the a doctor's medical treatment? Don't medical privacy laws protect patients from this sort of egregious abuse???
Panich52
(5,829 posts)5. Besides the privacy, there's the blatant misogyny - that she bled cuz of caused by “severe anxiety"
These supposed educated people (that is their chosen field) obviously are as uneducated as that dimwit legislator who thought a woman could swallow a camera to see her fetus.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)4. Time to hire a shark of a lawyer and go for the Supreme court
Can we let Texas secede, now?
niyad
(113,552 posts)6. here we have the real reason for this insanity:
In response to the district decision, a petition has been created demanding an investigation of Principal Katy Maurer and Daniel Gallagher, Director of Elementary Services, for the roles they played in this situation. According to the petition, Gallagher and Maurer allegedly placed Glaser on leave in revenge for questioning the way they have been treating parents, teachers, and running the school. The petition states that Gallagher personally went through the trash in the womens restroom to find evidence that Glaser was bleeding. The pair also apparently want Glaser to undergo examinations from a gynecologist and a psychotherapist to determine her ability to do her job, which sounds very much like persecution.